World Monuments in Paris: New WMF Project to Be Announced
with Alexandre Gady
Thursday, January 23, 2025
On Zoom • in English
12:00 p.m. Chicago (CST) / 1:00 p.m. Miami (EST) / 19h Paris
$10 Member / $20 Non-member / $50 Member Series / $100 Non-Member Series
Free for students; you must register with an .edu address to receive a Zoom link for the event.
Description
Join us for an exclusive lecture on our upcoming secret project, set to be revealed in January 2025.
About Alexandre Gady
Alexandre Gady is currently the Director of the prefiguration mission for the Musée du Grand Siècle. A renowned researcher, he has primarily focused on global approaches to heritage, exploring the themes of decoration, monuments, and landscapes. An art historian, he focuses on exploring issues of transfers, exchanges, and circulations across both European and extra-European spaces.
Series Curator & Moderator
Russell Kelley was the curator and moderator of the past four winters’ Zoom lecture series on the “Grands Châteaux of the Loire and Île de France,” “The Making of the French Garden,” “The Great Churches of Paris,” and “The Making of the Museums of Paris.” He is the author of The Making of Paris: The Story of How Paris Evolved from a Fishing Village into the World’s Most Beautiful City (Lyons Press, 2021), and has lived in Paris for more than 30 years.
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